TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kashima, Eri
A1  - Williams, Daniel
A1  - Ellison, T. Mark
A1  - Schokkin, Dineke
A1  - Escudero, Paola
T1  - Uncovering the acoustic vowel space of a previously undescribed language: The vowels of Nambo
JF  - The journal of the Acoustical Society of America
N2  - This study presents the first acoustic description of the vowel space of a Papuan language—Nambo, spoken in southern Papua New Guinea—based on duration and first and second formant measurements from 19 adult male and female speakers across three age groups (young, middle-aged, senior). Phonemically, Nambo has six full vowels /i, e, æ, ɑ, o, u/ and a reduced vowel tentatively labeled /ə/. Unlike the full vowels, the quality of /ə/ showed great variation: seniors' and young females' realizations tended to be more open and retracted than those by young males, while middle-aged speakers' productions fell between these two variants.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4954395
SN  - 0001-4966
SN  - 1520-8524
VL  - 139
SP  - EL252
EP  - EL256
PB  - American Institute of Physics
CY  - Melville
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Elvin, Jaydene
A1  - Williams, Daniel
A1  - Escudero, Paola
T1  - Dynamic acoustic properties of monophthongs and diphthongs in Western Sydney Australian English
JF  - The journal of the Acoustical Society of America
N2  - This study provides a thorough acoustic analysis of the 18 Australian English monophthongs and diphthongs produced in a variety of phonetic contexts by young adult speakers from Western Sydney. The 18 vowels are well separated by duration and dynamic formant trajectory information. Vowel durations and formant trajectories were affected by the consonantal context in which the vowels were produced, particularly those produced in the /hVd/ context. Finally, the results indicate that capturing aspects of vowel inherent spectral change may be useful in future cross-dialectal and cross-linguistic studies. (C) 2016 Acoustical Society of America.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4952387
SN  - 0001-4966
SN  - 1520-8524
VL  - 140
SP  - 576
EP  - 581
PB  - American Institute of Physics
CY  - Melville
ER  -